Why Did The Justice Department Kill The Madoff Subpoena Against JPMorgan?

WallStreetOnParade  December 31 2013

Attorney General Eric Holder Testifying Before the House Judiciary Committee on May 15, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder Testifying Before the House Judiciary Committee on May 15, 2013

Since December 16, major business media have failed to dig deeper into a potentially blockbuster story involving the Justice Department’s refusal to honor a Wall Street regulator’s request for a subpoena against JPMorgan Chase to obtain Madoff related documents the firm was refusing to turn over. JPMorgan Chase was Madoff’s banker for the last 22 years of his fraud. The Trustee in charge of recovering funds for Madoff’s victims, Irving Picard, said in a filing to the U.S. Supreme Court this Fall that JPMorgan stood “at the very center of Madoff’s fraud for over 20 years.”

It’s a big story when a serial miscreant like JPMorgan – which has promised its regulators to change its jaded ways in exchange for settlements – risks obstruction of justice charges by denying one of its key regulators internal documents. It becomes an explosive story when the Justice Department, the highest law enforcement agency in the land and the regulator’s only source of help in enforcing a subpoena for the documents, sides with the serial miscreant instead of the regulator.

The story began on December 16 when Scott Cohn of CNBC posted a story with this headline: “Feds Probe JPMorgan Interference in Madoff Case.” The article revealed that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a JPMorgan Chase regulator and part of the U.S. Treasury Department, had been so riled by JPMorgan’s refusal to turn over documents related to what its employees knew about the Madoff fraud that it referred the matter to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General.

The article quotes Richard Delmar, legal counsel to the Inspector General, who explains that Continue reading

“Chasing Madoff” ~ The Real Story Behind the Largest Ponzi Scheme in History

Financial Sense | February 9 2012

Producer/Director Jeff Prosserman discusses his explosive documentary, “Chasing Madoff”

James J Puplava is pleased to welcome Producer/Director Jeff Prosserman to discuss his explosive new documentary “Chasing Madoff,” the story of Harry Markopolos and his ten year struggle to expose Bernie Madoff and save investors’ life savings. Finding himself trapped in a web of epic deceit, the once unassuming Boston securities analyst turned vigilante investigator now feared for his life and the safety of his family, as he discovered no one would listen. “Chasing Madoff” tells the story the regulators hid from the public and which is still widely ignored by the media.

Bernard MadoffJeff Prosserman is the Executive Producer and Principal of Gusto Goods. Gusto Goods is a production company based in New York and Toronto specialized in the development, production, and marketing of socially evocative films and documentaries.

Listen to audio-taped conversation here